Mao Revolution Quotes

#1. The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

Mao Zedong

#2. Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

Mao Zedong

#3. As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Mao Zedong

#4. Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

Mao Zedong

#5. What do you think has been the effect of the French revolution? It is too early to tell.

Mao Zedong

#6. A people's insurrection and a people's revolution are not only natural but inevitable.

Mao Zedong

#7. You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.

Mao Dun

#8. Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly.

Mao Zedong

#9. Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Mao Zedong

#10. While I listened to the words of homage to Mao, I remembered Mao's awesome power, like a blanket over China threatening to smother whomever he chose. Pg. 218

Nien Cheng

#11. Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

Mao Zedong

#12. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse-tung

#13. I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Ferdinand Marcos

#14. An army of the people is invincible!

Mao Zedong

#15. The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Mao Zedong

#16. It is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

Mao Zedong

#17. Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Mao Zedong

#18. And yet at Yan'an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#19. Here is the opportunity for you to help Chairman Mao's revolution. Who can win the most honor by telling us first?

Ji-li Jiang

#20. A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

Mao Zedong

#21. The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Mao Zedong

#22. The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

Mao Zedong

#23. It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

#24. Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?
I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.
In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,
Such questions can turn me to ashes.

Zoe S. Roy

#25. Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.

Mao Tse-tung

#26. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Mao Zedong

#27. The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army ... Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.

Mao Zedong

#28. I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Vivienne Westwood

#29. I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

Lynne Stewart

#30. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

Mao Zedong

#31. Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

Mao Tse-tung